Kublai Khan lay on the couch, expressionless as he listened to Chancellor Bayan's report from below the steps.
In recent months, he had been investing more and more support into the containment effort.
The Imperial Guards under him had been highly capable. They had truly contained two Mysterious Objects in places the "Mo School" had failed to notice.
The fact that they had escaped the "Mo School's" notice also meant that their dangers and effects were limited.
Such Contained Objects were easy to contain, and were basically ordinary everyday items.
Of the Contained Objects Kublai Khan had obtained, one was particularly useful. It was a red scarf, the kind worn around the neck or tied around the arm.
The Contained Object had initially appeared on a Great Song surrendering soldier. He was merely a minor Han Chinese cavalryman under Bayan, the chancellor of Great Yuan.
When rebel troops surrounded the city, this cavalryman relied solely on the red scarf's properties to infiltrate the rebel camp alone and assassinate the rebel king. He then fought his way through the enemy camp seven times in and seven times out, throwing the camp into chaos while they could do nothing to him. In the end, he escaped unharmed with the rebel king's head. The enemy troops rioted and slaughtered one another, and when Chancellor Bayan arrived with his army, he crushed them in one stroke.
With this great achievement, the cavalryman rose rapidly through the ranks and was promoted directly to commander of a thousand cavalrymen.
He had thought he could continue controlling the Contained Object, but unexpectedly, the Great Yuan Emperor established a special Imperial Guard force to investigate such strange people and incidents.
After being thoroughly investigated, the man could no longer conceal the secret of the red scarf.
It turned